Chapter 11, Knowing to Much
Charlie felt cold, she noticed at first she still couldn't move. She gave it a moment or two then opened her eyes. that was painful to do, but she managed to do it. She reached up to rub her face and felt a sharp pain when she did. She jumped, she felt it again. It was like every time she moved there was a sharp breaking pain, she looked at her arm a saw her veins and gabbed at them.
Normally her veins looked light blue or purple. But now they were black, and it wasn't just on her arm, it was all over her body.
The door to her cell opened and a huge droid walked in with two guard droids by his side.
"Come with me!" he demanded.
"You're not taking me back to the lab are you?" she asked.
"No, follow me!" he said.
Charlie sighed with relief and followed him.
She stayed close behind him as best as she could, but every movement or step was the same sharp pain all over her body.
They reached a door, the droid opened it and waited for her to enter. Charlie walked in, he shut the door behind her.
Grievous was stretched out on a table staring up out into what looked like a window at first but was a television.
He looked at her, "Did you sleep well?" he asked.
"Till I woke up," said Charlie.
"Yes the drug I gave you does have a little bit of an after effect. You see, once it enters the system of a body it freezes the blood vassals and the organs. It shuts the body down and makes the person appear dead!" he laughed.
"Who would want to pretend to be dead?" asked Charlie.
"You would be surprised. It's the most sold drug on the black market. But is extremely fatal to humans," stated Grievous.
"Why did you give it to me then?" asked Charlie in shock.
"Its only fatal to humans because their body temperature is never hot enough to take its coldness. Which was why I gave you the first drug. I told you I was going to keep you alive." He said as he sat up and got to his feet. He fastened his cape over his mechanical body. Then he walked over to her.
"But why did you want to give me the drug in the first place?" she asked.
"I wanted to see how you would react to it. I must say you did much better than I expected you to!" Said Grievous patting her on the head.
"WHAT! You tortured the hell out of me and nearly kill me just to see how I would react to it!" she screamed at him.
Grievous back slapped her knocking her to the floor. He bent down beside her.
"Do not ever raise your voice to me again!" he hissed.
Charlie held her face, the whole side of her face was on fire. He grabbed the front of her shirt and pulled her eye level with him.
"Do you understand me?" he asked, Charlie didn't answer at first.
"I said do you understand me?" he tried to say it as nice as he could, but Charlie knew the monster was still there.
"ANSWER ME!" he yelled at her.
"Y-yes sir!" she stuttered.
"Good!" he sat her down and pulled her arms out to look at her veins. He traced the black veins with his two extra hands. Charlie flinched every time he touched them.
"That hurts you doesn't it?" he asked looking her in the face. "It takes a lot for me to feel pain!"
"Ever since your ship crashed," said Charlie.
"Now how do you know that?" he asked. Charlie looked away, but he grabbed her chin and forced her to look at him.
"I asked you a question!" he said as he let go of her arms to hold her shoulders. While Charlie was thinking he started stroking her head with his other free hand, it made her even more nervous.
"I… well… I studied you," she started trembling.
"Did you now! How much do you know about me?" he asked.
"General Grievous Shaker, birth name Qymaen jai Sheelal, from the planet Kalee," she paused to think, "5 omix-patra 95 droid hybrid, umm… allied with the Confederacy of Independent Systems… trained by Count Dooku in the Jedi arts-" he put a metal finger to her lip to stop her.
"Very good. It is a wonder how you know all this. Which is why I wanted to ask you to join? Your knowledge about us can be very useful." He said.
"I won't be any good when my memory goes away!" she said.
"Not to worry, we have spies that are watching that woman. When she finds the thing to save you, we will take it from her and give it to you," said Grievous.
Charlie looked down thinking, "I… don't know, I just… want to go home."
"To go home! Don't we all, it is where we feel safe and loved," said Grievous as he ran his fingers through her hair. Charlie looked back at him confused.
"No I can't feel love and I don't love, but I do desire. I get mad, jealous, and sometimes thrilled," he said.
"And hate," said Charlie.
"Ah hate. How I hate the Jedi. But I don't have to hate you! Let me show you something." Said Grievous, he led her to a window.
Charlie's mouth opened as she stared in amazement. It was a beautiful moon, and in the distance a sun and several planets. Grievous watched her face light up. She touched the glass window. Maybe she was hoping to fall into the scenery.
Grievous had never been so pleased with one person's reaction in so long. In fact he had never been so thoughtful of a person.
She never noticed the needle he pulled from his belt. It was filled with a type of truth serum.
"You're a stargazer," said Grievous.
"What makes you say that?" asked Charlie not taking her eye's away from the moon.
"Your face, you've spent your whole life watching the stars above and wishing to get closer," said Grievous, he was now standing behind her.
"There is so much to know," said Charlie, Grievous rested two of his hands on her shoulders.
"And I believe you know more than you are willing to tell," he quickly stuck the needle in her arm. Charlie winced and looked at him in confusion.
"Look at it this way my dear it's not as painful as beating the answers out of you!" explained Grievous.
Charlie started to sway, her knee's gave out from under her.
But grievous caught her "Why me dear you look tired!" he picked her up and laid her down on the table, "You have some thing's you want to tell me. Lets start about how did you study me?" asked Grievous.
"Website's posted on the internet with your biography and books written about star wars." Said the drugged Charlie.
"Tell me about star wars" said Grievous.
"Its a sage with many stories." Said Charlie.
"Where does Grievous come in on star wars?" he asked.
"During the Clone Wars, before the fall of the Jedi," said Charlie.
"Really! So you know a lot about what's to come?"
charlie gluped, "most of it." she mumbled.
Everyone who knows about star wars should know that Grievous wears a metal mask. It never really says that he has a face, but if he did you would see an evil smile. He didn't think one little girl could be beyond his wildest dreams. In his mind, there was no way he was going to let her go now.
Sorry i've gotten behind, now that its the end of the year school has been putting on a lot of pressure. But thank god yesterday, may 12, was my last day.